A quiet notice V2Melody closes at midnight on , Spanish time.

Closes

A note from Richard

V2Melody will close at midnight on 20 January 2028

This site has been a retirement project in musical poetry: poems chosen with care and set to music, offered freely for as long as it felt right to keep the garden open.

The work no longer holds the place it once did in my life. I have gone as far with it as I wish to go. Like a sand mandala, it was made to be completed and then released. I am not attached to its permanence, and I do not believe any of it needs to last beyond the time it was given. The poems were already here before I arrived and began to experiment with them. They will still be here when these musical experiments, and indeed myself, have been swept away, like the sand of a mandala. Nothing has been lost.

I want a simpler end to my life, days of simple love and enjoyment with my wonderful wife of 20 years. The work of maintaining a server, the monitoring, and the residual obligations that come with keeping a site alive no longer fit that life.

From 4 November 2026 I will not be adding new poems or musical poems to the site.

Until midnight on 20 January 2028, Spanish time, everything remains available exactly as it is. That is when my VPS server contract comes to an end, and it will not be renewed. After that, the server will be switched off and the site will disappear.

The Mandala Is Finished explains this more fully.

Thank you to anyone who found a poem, a track, or a quiet moment here.

The pleasure was in the making.

Richard

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Antanaclastic rhyme

Rhyme
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

Rhyme that pairs homonyms or words repeated with different meanings

Detailed Definition
Antanaclastic rhyme is a punning or wordplay-based rhyme in which a word is repeated with a shift in meaning or grammatical function, creating a sonic echo that underscores semantic contrast or irony; for example, rhyming “light” (illumination) with “light” (weight) exploits homophony to generate layered significance, and this technique—favored by metaphysical poets like John Donne—uses rhyme not for musicality alone but as a vehicle for wit, paradox, and conceptual surprise within tightly crafted stanzas.
Example
Example in poetry:
Antanaclastic rhyme repeats a word with shifted meaning and sound, as in: “Time flies. / You can’t; they’re too fast.” (playing on “flies” as insect vs. verb).
Additional Notes
Rhyme using same word with different meanings (type of antanaclasis). Creates punning effect. More common in light verse. Differs from identical rhyme which lacks semantic shift. Requires careful context.
Also Known As
Repeated-word rhyme Same-word different-sense rhyme Antanaclastic echo
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